Re: Admin programs and password
Re: Admin programs and password
- Subject: Re: Admin programs and password
- From: Charles Bennett <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:58:59 -0400
[munched]
I agree.
I'd rather have root enabled and NOT allow user space apps
to "su" but I'm a Linux/NeXT/Unix geek so I'm already ruined..
If you have to logout and back in as root, you "should" be thinking
about what you are doing. From a Mac users perspective, I imagine that
logging in as "someone else" would be confusing and I suppose Apple's support
folks would have nightmares about supporting it.. "Now just boot into single user mode
and restore your netinfo database.. Might as well fsck the drive while your at it.."
Yea right :-)
The NeXT verision of PowerGuardian kept the daemon configuration
(controlled preferences for the daemon) as a separate app that wouldn't run
unless you were root. That let sysadmin types keep the config app and let the
users only "watch" not control.
Dealing with moving preferences from "user" space to "daemon" space was a tricky
thing in the OS X version.
chuck
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Any application that needs a user/password should be investigated fully
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before you enter your password into it. There are many valid reasons why
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admin access may be needed (and in fact, several of my own programs need
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it), but you should think before you enter your password into anything
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other than the OS login window. This is a standard rule of thumb on any
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Unix-like multi-user system.
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Brian
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